Organized thematically around important questions in comparative politics, the Sixth Edition of Introducing Comparative Politics: Concepts and Cases in Context by Stephen Orvis and Carol Ann Drogus integrates a set of extended case studies that vividly illustrate issues in cross-national context for 11 countries.

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Stephen Orvis is Professor of Government at Hamilton College. He is a specialist on sub-Saharan Africa (Kenya in particular), identity politics, democratic transitions, and the political economy of development. He has been teaching introduction to comparative politics for more than twenty-five years, as well as courses on African politics, nationalism and the politics of identity, political economy of development, and weak states. He has written a book and articles on agricultural development in Kenya, as well as several articles on civil society in Africa and Kenya, and is currently doing research on political institutions in Africa.